 | Manchester Geographical Society - Geography - 1887 - 388 pages
...importance. It has increasingly been the object of the British commercial communities for the past fifty years to open up the Shan States and south-west China...the question, sanctioned a railway survey to China, which, however, was not carried out. In 1869 the Duke of Argyll sanctioned a survey between Tonghoo... | |
 | Asia - 1887 - 1956 pages
...British commercial communities for the past fifty years to expand our commerce in that region. As far back as 1829 Lord William Bentinck, and in 1836 Lord...the question, sanctioned a railway survey to China which however was not carried out, and in 1874 once more sanctioned a survey to Kiang Hung or some... | |
 | Asia - 1889 - 972 pages
...be found by a process familiarly but somewhat vaguely ' termed " tapping " their resources. As far back as 1829, Lord William Bentinck, and, in 1836,...Lord Auckland, interested themselves in the question ; but nothing of a practical character seems to have been done till Lord Salisbury, in 1866, and again... | |
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It has increasingly been the object of the British commercial communities for the past fifty years to open up the Shan States and south-west China to our commerce. As late back as 1829 Lord William Bentinck, and in 1836 Lord Auckland, interested themselves... 